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killing our planet. On the other hand, there are heroes who are looking for ways to try to save it. Boyan Slat is an example of a Dutch inventor who figured out a way to clean up the ocean on an enormous scale starting from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. With a team of 99 scientists, Boyan is working on this technique which filters the ocean without harming the living creatures. There are many issues that ocean creatures suffer from which are done by humans, and there are ways to fix…

Currents are the movements of the ocean produced by various causes. It may be divided into general and particular. The former depending on fixed and general causes which is always preserve the same direction and limits while the latter resulting from local and temporary ones vary both. The grand movement of the ocean from east to west or the equatorial current has a more complicated origin and the trade wind, so far from being the cause as has been supposed by some are probably in part the…

religious Catholic who believed “that God destined him to be an instrument for spreading the faith” and this religious fervor motivated his plans and preparations for his voyages. Christopher Columbus began making plans for a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1486. In order to fund…

Cuba has a very tropical energy to it because it is part of the Caribbean. It is hot all year round and literally has untouched nature because of political sanctions. Cuba is only 90 miles from Key West, Florida and it is surrounded by Haiti and Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Cayman Islands. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean. Currently, people can legally travel to Cuba if it is educational, religious, volunteer work, etc. Plane tickets to Cuba from…

re-peopling of the America’s was Christopher Columbus’ voyage. As immigrants began to migrate to the America’s, places such as the “Atlantic World” were created. Moreover, towards the end of the 1670’s Bacon’s Rebellion plays a pivotal role in this transition to the America’s that many individuals were under-going.…

In four-hundred and sixty million years ago in the Ordovician era the plates are moving again and a new continent is formed called godiwalla. There should be plants and animals now because of the oxygen level, but there is only one reason why there isn’t any life on land yet, the sun. The sun is blasting the earth with deadly radiation, life on earth would not survive at all. With thirty miles from the earth 's surface the oxygen meets the sun 's radiation it forms another gas called the ozone.…

Laura Hillenbrand uses vivid sensory details in the preface of Unbroken to create suspense. The preface starts out describing how Louie and his crew were adrift at sea and how the Japanese captured them. She describes and restates multiple times how far out in the ocean they are and how long they’ve been adrift, “All he could see, in every direction, was water.”, "Endless expanse of ocean.", "Adrift for 27 days", "At least 1,000 miles deep into Japanese controlled waters.", "They were alone in…

Annotated Bibliography Albandri Almujeiwil Wright State University Annotated Bibliography Loxton, D. (2003). THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. Skeptic, 10(3), 96-104. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.libraries.wright.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=11824529&site=eds-live#.VvNNBM5xITc.mailto The article illustrates the place where small boats, huge ships and even powerfull militery aircraft sometimes sail out into calm, clear weather and then just vanish…

Hurricane Patricia hit land on Oct. 23. It set records for being the strongest hurricane ever based on the barometric pressure (879 millibars), the speed it changed from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane (24 hours), and the faster sustainable winds (200 mph). Hurricane Patricia starting forming in the Pacific, but didn’t hit anybody’s radar until it started to form a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tehuantepec which is in the Pacific Ocean west of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The storm…

Plastic Pollution Have you ever gone to any ocean and found plastic in the water? This problem is known as water pollution and it’s majorly affecting the Earth. Did you know that billions of pounds of plastic can be found swirling in the ocean? According to Ecowatch, about 100,000 animals die from plastic pollution each year. Hundred thousand animals, what if 100,000 humans died. It’d be a catastrophe and people would care about how randomly 100,00. Ecowatch stated plastic constitutes…